part vi • european legal integration • nina-louisa arold lorenz Others warned that their Eastern colleagues would bring to theCJEUexperiences of public international law, and so risk overseeing the specifics of EU law.46 Structurally, the inclusion of former Eastern Bloc states in the EU and in the Council of Europe has had a significant impact on the size of the courts and therefore personal encounters by colleagues. Vocational experienceThe ECtHRinterviews pointed to a stronger divide in approach based on vocational experience. This divide was said to run between former career judges and former academics.Whereas former judges were predominantly concerned with the legal question in hand, academics would look for the wider implications for international law. As one of them said, ‘Judges see only cases, cases, cases, but they do not see the larger picture, the further meaning for law’.47 There was a rider to that, though: ‘Judges go to the point; they do not make long speeches on irrelevant facts. But professors have a broader approach; they take things into account that I think to be irrelevant.’48 Another member of court summed the approaches by people from different backgrounds up as ‘judges and lawyers look at the details, professors look at the general picture, and politicians at geopolitical issues and traditions’.49 At the CJEU, too, the interviewees commented on the difference between an academic (concerned with the wider implication of the case) and a judge (concerned with the facts) as the two main dividing lines between the judicial approaches.50 As one interviewee said of vocational background, it ‘is certainly making a difference’: 46 See Arold Lorenz et al. 2013, ch. 4, ch. 5 at 110 for human rights relevancy in the discussion of the Laval andViking cases. 47 See Arold 2007, 73. 48 Ibid. 73. 49 Ibid. 73. 50 See Arold Lorenz et al. 2013, 107, 108. 310 Vocational experience It plays quite an important role in the approach to cases, the academic approach or themore practical approach. Someone who has had, before coming here, exclusively an academic experience, has another way [of working] than
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